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The Brooklyn orchestral collective performed music by Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Gottschalk and contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery.
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Tag Archives: Schubert
Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein – ‘A Character of Quiet’ (Philip Glass, Franz Schubert)
Dinnerstein's masterful and thoroughly adult interpretive force makes her new album a balm for the soul, especially in such troubled times as these.
Read More »Concert and CD Review: Trio Vitruvi – U.S. Debut and Album Release (Carnegie Hall, NYC, 17 April 2018)
The young Danish piano trio makes a smashing U.S. concert debut upon the release of their first album, with music by Schubert, Shostakovich, and Dvořák.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra with Contralto Avery Amereau (NYC, 24 March 2018)
The venerable original-instruments orchestra presented familiar and seldom-heard works, including Brahms's 'Alto Rhapsody' and music by Schubert and Ferdinand Ries.
Read More »Classical Music Reviews: Schubert Piano Trios, Songs of the Rhinemaidens, and New Music for Theremin
Knowing that Eyck conceived and recorded the album for 12" vinyl made even my digital listening experience feel somehow richer – as if I were in the presence not just of new avant-garde music but of the whole weird history of the theremin.
Read More »Concert Review: The American Classical Orchestra Plays Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on Period Instruments (March 12 2015)
The contrast between classical-period instruments and modern ones is a bit like that between an original vinyl recording and a CD remastering.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Premiere from Debut Album ‘Portrait’ by Itamar Zorman, Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition Winner
Whether on stage or in the recording studio, Zorman brings the requisite energy to the music of different centuries.
Read More »Music Review: Pianist Els Biesemans – ‘Winterreise’ (Liszt Transcriptions of Songs by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Chopin)
The pianist offers exceptional renditions on a restored 180-year-old fortepiano.
Read More »Interview: Pianist Yoonie Han on Her Debut Album ‘Love and Longing’
The pianist explores love and longing on her debut release on the Steinway & Sons label, with music by Schubert, Liszt, Prokofiev, Granados and more.
Read More »Interview with Gerald Elias, Author of Death and the Maiden
"If you’ve ever played in a string quartet, you’ll know it doesn’t take very long before everyone wants to kill each other."
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